Modern Slavery eLearning

Modern slavery eLearning is online awareness training that teaches staff to recognise severe exploitation and escalate it. It is almost always non-accredited, which is the right category for it. Accredited courses sit on the National Training Register, are delivered by registered training organisations and lead to a statement of attainment. A modern slavery module does none of those things, and the Commonwealth Act does not ask it to.

That matters when a vendor blurs the line. If a provider implies national recognition, check the National Training Register. If the course is not there and the provider is not an RTO, it is awareness training, and it should be priced and described as such.

Four things worth checking before you buy a module:

• Does it teach the Australian statutory practices, including forced labour, debt bondage, deceptive recruiting and the worst forms of child labour, rather than a generic offshore factory story?
• Are there separate paths by role? A buyer approving a contract price needs different content from a supervisor on a site.
• Does it end with an escalation route, naming who to tell and how fast? A module that stops at awareness leaves the person who noticed something with nowhere to take it.
• Does it produce a completion record you can cite when you describe training in your modern slavery statement?

Be careful what you claim from it. Completion shows a person opened the module and passed a quiz. It is evidence of reach, not of competence, and an annual module on its own does not discharge anything. Posts tagged here cover how Australian organisations scope and run this training. See how it fits the wider picture in compliance training and learning management.

Sentrient’s modern slavery course sits alongside the wider compliance training courses library.